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Ds brings home school toy...wth?

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witchkat72 · 08/11/2016 17:28

Ok new to this so forgive me if on wrong board. My ds who is 4 brings home the nursery toy. The idea is for him to take said toy/puppet out with us until Monday, where I am to take pictures and write a lengthy diary entry of what ds and puppet have done. Problem is so far ds has shown no interest in even going near it/him and has categorically said it /he is not ds' friendConfused what on earth do I do now? Take pictures of said puppet ostracized to corner of sofa? Write that its had a fab time being carted around by me in a duffle bag all weekend and ds has ignored itBlush? Wwyd?

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wineusuallyhelps · 08/11/2016 19:30

Aha this old chestnut....it only ends up being an exercise in parental one-upmanship. "I took Teddy to an art exhibition followed by a bushcraft session...when he was hungry he snacked on homemade burgers (tofu and quinoa of course) and finally we visited the local homeless shelter before coming home to a family sing-song around the Aga".

Never "Teddy watched Mummy and Daddy do chores they hadn't had time for in the week, whilst throwing the odd muttered insult at each other after last night's row. Meanwhile the kids played on the Wii and ate packet after packet of crisps because the adults were distracted. Then everyone was too knackered to do anything so we watched a film and went to bed." Wink

Good luck OP....try to see the funny side!

pigsDOfly · 08/11/2016 19:35

Oh yeah, Bertie I'd forgotten the poor bloody class hamster.

One of my DDs brought her class hamster home for the half term holidays. On the first night we realised it was bleeding from its anus so took it to our vet who told us it had some sort of infection. Can't remember the whole thing but it turned out that the hamster was seriously ill and needed to be pts. I phoned the teacher - had her number for emergencies - who frankly wasn't the least be interested and said do whatever you want.

Poor hamster was sent to the big hamster farm in the sky, which really upset DD.

I never got reimbursed for the vet fees, but the worse bit was that when they went back to school the teacher more or less told the children that DD had murdered the hamster. DD was very unpopular for quite some time over it.

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witchkat72 · 08/11/2016 19:42

ilongforlustre ds is the second child, first child was taken to Wetherspoons with dp and their friends, also went to football practice and the airport and shopping, me thinks toy will be having a bath to start with.

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IJustLostTheGame · 08/11/2016 19:46

Ours got drunk on gin and inappropriately manhandled snow white dolly before trashing the lego box and passing out in a drunken stupor.

I still wish we'd handed that version in.

thefairyfellersmasterstroke · 08/11/2016 19:50

love the pics of "bad" bears!

DS's class had a bear in P1, which had a huge wardrobe of clothes so not only were the children to take it around with them all weekend, they had to dress it appropriately too. DS had no interest in bears, or dressing up any figures, and at parents night the teacher said he was the only child in the class not to take Mrs. Teddy home, so would we have this weekend please?

I asked DS who said No, so we declined and she got quite bad-tempered about it.

We never did get forced into it, but we had the perfect weekend planned just in case - she was going to be beaten up in the karate class and dressed in blood-stained bandages and a sling. Then taken down the pub and photographed like other PP have done with fags and booze. Then be lying in a gutter face down in a pile of puke by Sunday morning.

Thank God we were never put to the test as the temptation to actually do it would have been too strong to resist, I think. As it was, it took us all our time not to refer to it as Mrs. Fucking Teddy.

Pineapplemilkshake · 08/11/2016 19:53

We had this with DS at pre school. He didn't have much interest either so I brought the puppet into work with me and took a few pics there.

It was interesting reading so D of the other parents entries - some were very impressive, e.g. bringing puppet to Disney on Ice, etc. Others seemed to show a lot of fancy houses and gardens, which was great for my nosy side!

Our particular puppets were a range aimed to teach children about diversity, so each one had a unique feature, e.g. One was a traveller and another wore an eye patch. They matched in with a TV ad campaign, I think these were only shown in NI. I had to laugh at the one we got though - it's "problem" was having a fictional mum who worked full time Grin

PippilottaViktualia · 08/11/2016 20:04

My daughter has a class bear at nursery. She is 3 and gives not a shit about it. The bear's book is full of trips to farmers markets, having trips in new fancy cars and bagging MunrosHmm

Our turn just so happened to coincide with a long weekend in Moscow to visit my Dad, my husband was mortified and wanted to pop to B&Q on the way home from the airport and pretend we'd done that instead so as not to appear to get involved with the one upmanshipGrin

BertieBotts · 08/11/2016 20:04

Just realised the link to MN bear's blog is sadly gone from the thread.

It's here instead. :)

pomthebearmn.blogspot.com/

QueenLizIII · 08/11/2016 20:06

Class bear at the Red Square would be awesome.

QueenLizIII · 08/11/2016 20:12

Here we go...bear plays games and not much else

Iggi999 · 08/11/2016 20:14

Thanks for the link Bertie, haven't read that for ages!

2kids2dogsnosense · 08/11/2016 20:23

Take pictures of toy

  1. flat out on sofa with Bottles of Beer
  2. having a crafty fag (leaning out of the window
  3. eating an entire chocolate cake
  4. beating up smaller toy and taking its pocket money
  5. in the bath surrounded by naked Barbie dolls

They will not send it home with you again

2kids2dogsnosense · 08/11/2016 20:26

We never did get forced into it, but we had the perfect weekend planned just in case - she was going to be beaten up in the karate class and dressed in blood-stained bandages and a sling. Then taken down the pub and photographed like other PP have done with fags and booze. Then be lying in a gutter face down in a pile of puke by Sunday morning.

Sorry - hadn't read all this when I made my post.

Justlostthegame and others - I think we may be related . . .

2kids2dogsnosense · 08/11/2016 20:27

For some reason my laptop only shows me the first page on any thread and won't go further until I've posted something, so I apologise for repetitions etc.

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witchkat72 · 08/11/2016 21:15

Spent this evening flicking through colouring book

Ds brings home school toy...wth?
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WankersHacksandThieves · 08/11/2016 21:30

Feck that thing is creepy!

QueenLizIII · 08/11/2016 21:35

what an ugly doll.

LittleReindeerwithcloggson · 08/11/2016 21:43

We had a class bear. The kids did the obligatory "Barney enjoyed the seaside etc etc" in the class log book whilst the adults passed around an alternative book. Over the course of the year Barney went clubbing, got drunk (many times) had a spa day, went to the casino, played poker (and other games!) with Barbie etc etc
Got put on the teachers desk at the end of the year. She said she's never laughed so much and that she hates the fucking bear too!

paxillin · 08/11/2016 21:44

Bloody hell. Lock that thing in the cupboard under the stairs, it's going to come alive at night.

HanYOLO · 08/11/2016 22:00

Blimey, that is one seriously creepy dolly

Natsku · 08/11/2016 22:01

Fuck, no wonder your DS isn't keen on it - its the stuff of nightmares!

Flumpsnlumpsnstuff · 08/11/2016 22:02

My god that thing is evil Confused
We had class bear and it had a bath straight away, then went to the moon DH attached it to the firework ! I thought he was kidding and then went to buy a new bear I tried to say it got damaged but DD1 grassed me up so dd2 got it 4 fecking times Hmm
I don't think the teacher liked the bear either !

zoobaby · 08/11/2016 22:09

Really can't understand why your DS isn't totally enamoured with that thing. I'd love to know WTF the teacher was thinking.

WiddlinDiddlin · 08/11/2016 22:09

I'd do something highly inappropriate *(of course I have the time as I don't have any children to run around after..)..

That creepy fucker would fall out of the car window after a weekend of debauchery featuring Barbie and other Barbie and a herd of my little ponies and a big bottle of poppers..

And then be re-incarnated as a much cuter BEAR (lets see teach explain reincarnation.. bwahahaha).

Its really a very good thing i can't reproduce.

Allthewaves · 08/11/2016 22:15

Yikes that puppet is scary